About me
Academic Background Master degree and Minor degree: Piano performance, Composition and Conducting
Conducting: he studied with Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Carlo Maria Giulini, Mario Gusella e Peter Maag Composition: Aldo Clementi and Franco Donatoni
Vocal coach: Antonio Tonini (Lyrical Theater – Assistant of maestro Arturo Toscanini of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano), with whom he has collaborated, as assistant for seven years. Artists he has worked with He worked with many international singers: Carlos Almaguer Villalobos, June Anderson, Nazareno Antinori, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mauro Augustini, Monica Bacelli, Bruna Baglioni, Lando Bartolini, Rockwell Blake, Cecilia Bartoli, Stefania Bonfadelli, Franco Bonisolli, Robert Breault, Renato Bruson, Gianfranco Cecchele, Luca Canonici, Silvano Carroli, Giovanna Casolla, Paolo Coni, Fiorenza Cossotto, Alberto Cupido, Enzo Dara, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Mariella Devia, Jorge Vaz De Carvalho, Laura Claycomb, Placido Domingo, Maria Dragoni, Martine Dupuy, Francesco Ellero D’Artegna, Ignacio Encinas, Alida Ferrarini, Giovanni Furlanetto, Alberto Gazale, Piero Giuliacci, Christine Goerke, Emily Golden, Dalmacio Gonzales, Rita Gorr, Leila Guimaraes, Marcello Lippi, Frank Lopardo, Paola Marrocu, William Matteuzzi, Kathleen McCalla, Chris Merritt, Sara Mingardo, Paolo Montarsolo, Sarah M’Punga, Leo Nucci, Gianfranco Pastine, Francesca Patané, Luciano Pavarotti, Francesco Piccoli, Katya Ricciarelli, Stefano R. Miliani, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Michela Sburlati, Martina Serafin, Gérard Serkoyan, Luciana Serra, Diana Soviero, Giorgio Surjan, Giuseppe Taddei He worked with other great personalities (conductors, directors, producers, musicologists, scholars) such as: Spiros Argiris, Michael Ballam, Paola Bidinelli, Bruno Campanella, Robert Carsen, Rodolfo Celletti, Carlo Felice Cillario, Roberto De Simone, Gabriele Ferro, Sergio Fontana, Romano Gandolfi, Angelo Giovagnoli, Armin Jordan (assistent), Peter Maag (assistent), Mario Melani, GianCarlo Menotti, Riccardo Muti, Laura Padellaro, Patricia Panton, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Lamberto Pugelli, John Pritchard (assistent), Virginio Puecher, Donato Renzetti, Maurizio Scaparro, Sergio Segalini, Luciano Silvestri, Luigi Squarzina, Enrico Stinchelli, Walter Valeri, Lawrence Vincent, Gregorio Zappi, Alberto Zedda, Franco Zeffirelli, Michelangelo Zurletti and many others.
Academic and Art Teaching He has been a Full Time Professor (vocal coach) for 23 years at Ministero dell’Università “Luisa D’Annunzio” di Pescara, Italy (University of Pescara – Music Departement). He has been Adjunct Faculty at BYU University (UT) and at UVU University (UT). During his career, he has also taught various master courses throughout Europe. In 2011, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium) invited him to teach a Master class on Italian Opera. He has been a professor at many Academies of lyrical improvement. He worked along side of the music critic Sergio Segalini (Accademia d’Arte Lirica di Osimo) and with the family of the great tenor Mario del Monaco (Accademia di Cagli – Fondazione Mario del Monaco), of the which he has been the musical director. Vocal coach Many famous international vocal artists studied operatic repertoire with him: Eldar Alyev, Kostiantyn Andreiev, Carlo Barricelli, Rose-Antoinette Bellino, Eleni Calenos, Tiziana Caminiti, Ivan Choupenitch, Christopher Clayton, Joshua Collier, Andrea Concetti, José Corvelo, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Marina Costa-Jackson, Miriam Costa Jackson, Scilla Cristiano, Matthew Curran, France Dariz, Leonardo De Lisi, Giovanna Donadini, Marilyne Fallot, Paulo Ferreira, Ursula Ferri, Elena Gabouri, Bridgette Gan, Eva Garayova, Piero Guarnera, Alessandro Guerzoni, Emidio Guidotti, Kyu Won Han, Christopher Holmes, Isaac Hurtado, Eliza Kruszczynska, Ana Maria Labin, Madison Leonard, Tyler Nelson, Joao Oliveira, Elena Sancho Pereg, Gabriel Preisser, Diane Thueson Reich, Kenneth Roberson, Alan Sciberras, Martina Serafin, Brian Stucki, Iano Tamar, Ayhan Ustuk, Aydin Ustuk, Vittorio Vitelli, Mojca Vedernjac, Jennifer Welch Babidge, Sergey Zadvorny, etc. He collaborated with the musicologist Enrico Stinchelli for RAI RadioTelevisioneItaliana (Italian main TV station) in Rome for the program: “La Barcaccia”, where he recorded various broadcasting alongside of famous vocal artists such as Franco Bonisolli, Renato Bruson, Gianfranco Cecchele, Maria Dragoni, Bruna Baglioni. Conductor He conducted many Orchestra such as:
The RTSI Orchestra, (Switzerland), The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova (Moldova), The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague (Czech Republic), The Opera House Orchestra of Izmir (Turkey), The AMIT Orchestra of Roma (Italy), Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia (Italy), The Oporto National Orchestra (Portugal), The Plovdiv Symphonic Opera House Orchestra (Bulgaria), The Sofia Opera House Orchestra (Bulgaria), The Mostar State Orchestra (Bosnia), The Bari Symphonic Orchestra (Italy), The Giuseppe Tartini Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), The Costanza Opera House Orchestra (Romania), The Volgograd Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), The Philharmonic Orchestra of “Settimana Mozartiana” (Italy), The Choir and Orchestra of Luis Mariano (Spain), The Toronto Chamber Orchestra (Canada), The Rome Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), The Douai Philharmonic Orchestra (France), The Philharmonia Veneta Orchestra (Italy), The Nova Amadeus Orchestra (Italy), The Kiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), The “G.Paisiello” Chamber Orchestra (Italy), The Utah Lyric Opera Orchestra (USA), The San Remo Chamber Ensemble (Italy), Utah Opera Festival (USA), Winter Opera St. Louis Orchestra (USA) . He was invited by his great journalist friend Gregorio Zappi of RAI, to be the Conductor of the Rome Symphonic Orchestra, at the Jubilee of Political World Leaders at the Concert at Magna hallUniversity “La Sapienza” of Rome, transmitted by TV RAIUNO. (The Main television station of Italy).
Special events He has collaborated in the cinematographic production of Franco Zeffirelli “Callas Forever” (with protagonist Fanny Ardant “Callas”) as vocal specialist as well as the pianist of the film.
As an Orchestra Conductor, he has had great success with many operatic productions such as: D
